Mobile Astronomy: How We Name the Planets – Then and Now

In this edition of Mobile Stargazing, we'll look at how the planets got their names (and why some didn't stick), what they are called in other cultures and where the names for newly discovered objects in the far-off Kuiper Belt come from. This November, most of the planets can be found in the early evening sky — except for the biggest one, Jupiter, which is easy to spot in the east before sunrise. In the SkySafari 5 search menu, you can open the Sun & Planets list and enable highl